Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 34,756, John Dobson, New York

SERVICE
Dobson, John
NUMBER
S. 34,756
CONTENTS
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34 756
Ed 174
Buy INVALID.
Sent in N.Y. to be sent in Mass.
File No. 34 756
John Dobson
Ph Nov 1880
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 112
[Arrangement of 1870.]

4559
Massachusetts
John Dobson
of Gloucester in the state of Massachusetts, who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel John Bowdoin of the New Hampshire line, for the term of two years.
inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 3rd of April 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 9th of March 1819 and sent to Mrs. William Dyer, Salem, Massachusetts.
Arrears to 4th of March 1819 $ 88.29 Semi-annual all'ce ending 4 Sept. 1819 $ 48.
$ 136.29
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }

John Dobson
New York Line
1781 — 2 years
All in 6 years

State of Massachusetts
I John Dobson — a Citizen of the United States, now resident at Gloucester in the County of Essex — in the State aforesaid, do on oath testify and declare, that in the War of the Revolution, on the seventh autumn of the the year of our Lord Seventeen hundred & eighty one.
I entered and was engaged in the land — service of the United States on the continental establishment, and served accordingly from that time to the seventh of June in the year of our Lord Seventeen hundred & eighty three in the New York line of the army — as a private — against the common enemy, without any interruption or absence: that I belonged to Captain ... .. company in Colonel Baldwin's Regiment of Col John McKimsey till the spring of the year 1782, when I exchanged with one Jonathan Trim- ment, & was transferred to the company of Capt Sam T. Bell in the regiment of Col Philip Van Loorlandt in the same line and that I left the service on the expiration of the term aforesaid being honorably discharged
and that by reason of my reduced circumstances in life and poverty, I stand in need of assistance from my country for support, being now of the age of sixty five years My discharge being lost thro' lapse of time I have not any other evidence to offer than is herewith exhibited, it not being in my power to go to New York or to procure evidence in Massachusetts.
And I hereby relinquish all claim to every pension heretofore allowed me by the laws of the United States, if any may be or hath been so allowed.
John Dobson
BE IT REMEMBERED, That on this third day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen Pursuant to a law of the United States, entitled, "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war," made and passed on the 18th of March, A. D. 1818, personally appeareth before me
The Subscriber One of the Associate Judges of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the middle Circuit within the State aforesaid presiding pro hac vice the abovenamed John Dobson
and after due examination and caution to testify and declare the whole truth, he maketh oath to the declaration aforesaid, and subscribes the same in my presence; and, on examination duly made by me the said Judge, it appeareth to my satisfaction that the said declaration is true. In testimony
Whereof I hereunto affix my name & the seal of said Court.
Wm Wetmore

We the subscribers testify that the within named Declarant is supported at the expense of the town of Gloucester as one of the poor of said town in the first instance but reimbursable by the State.
✓ John H. H. D. } Overseers C. D. } of the Poor
Sworn to be as before me,
Wm Withmore, the Judge within named